5.5 Million More WiMAX Users in 2011

About 3.7 million new WiMAX or other fixed broadband subscribers were added in the fourth quarter of 2010, and 5.5 million will be added throughout 2011, according to Maravedis. The subscriber base for WiMAX and LTE reached 17.25 million and 320,000 respectively at the end of March 2011. The WiMAX subscriber increase represents a 32.7 percent jump quarter-over-quarter, from 13 million reported at the end of the fourth quarter 2010.

Maravedis anticipates that 59 FDD-LTE and 3 LTE TDD networks will be operational worldwide by the end of this year. 'There will be 305 million LTE subscribers by 2016, of which 14 percent, or 44 million, will be TD-LTE users and the rest (86 percent, or 261 million) will be FDD-LTE.

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